Colour palette extractor
Pull the dominant colour palette from any image. Copy any swatch as hex and export as a PNG strip, GIMP .gpl or JSON. Runs entirely in your browser.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
About the Colour palette extractor
A colour palette pulled from a reference image is a fast way to keep a consistent look across your art. This extractor finds the most dominant colours in any image, shows them as swatches you can copy as hex, and exports the set for use in other tools.
How to use the Colour palette extractor
- Drop any image.
- Choose how many colours to pull out.
- Copy any swatch as a hex code.
- Export the palette as a PNG strip, a GIMP .gpl file or JSON.
Frequently asked questions
It clusters the pixels in the image and returns the most dominant colours, so the palette reflects the tones that actually cover the most area rather than rare outliers.
You can export a PNG colour strip, a GIMP .gpl palette file for use in GIMP and other editors, or JSON for use in code.
No. The palette is extracted in your browser and your image is not sent anywhere.
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